From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 02:02:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2C816A407 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290CC43D5A for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:02:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 7297 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2006 12:01:59 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO localhost) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 25 Oct 2006 12:01:59 +1000 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:01:55 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: James Smallacombe Message-ID: <20061025120155.1fdd48fc@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying binaries to new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:02:00 -0000 On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:37:29 -0400 (EDT) James Smallacombe wrote: > Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old > server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any > simlinks to other file systems? why not use packages? from the already installed ones . I was agreeing with the dump/restore option, but doing it on top of a running system is possibly not the best idea...specially if you are going to be overwriting /etc and /usr/local/etc/... If you *didnt* have a running system on your new box, then definitely, dump/restore is great. Alternatively, you can get clever with dumping/restoring to alternative partitions and then adapt /etc/fstab in the new box to use the new files... the issue with libarchive + tar is, maybe, that is heavily used by tar itself? good luck _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." Mark Twain I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.